9 Science Facts That Will Ruin Your Day

 Having Kids Is One Of The Most Depressing Things Possible

A "little bundle of joy", that's what they call those things, right? Well, despite their reputation, having offspring has pretty disastrous effects on the happiness of both parents, in line with other joyous life events such as divorce, unemployment and the death of a partner. A study published in 2015 followed over 2,000 childless German couples, regularly surveying them for their levels of life satisfaction. The experiment began more than two years before the birth of the first child.